Meaning

The residential area near one's home..

Definitions by Sense

1. The residential area near one's home.
2. The inhabitants of a residential area.
3. A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.
4. An approximate amount.
5. The quality of physical proximity.
6. (chiefly obsolete) The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each other; proximity.
7. (dated) Close proximity; nearness.
8. (obsolete) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.

Example Sentences

He lives in my neighborhood.

I know the shadiest breeziest spots, hidden tables surrounded by trees that have lived longer than the neighborhoods around them. […] I simply remembered a great little park in a neighborhood where I used to teach at the elementary school up the road.

The fire alarmed the neighborhood.

We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood.

He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year.

The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood.

Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings.

1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 243-245, […] if you do any thing for charity, helpe me; if for neighborhood or brotherhood, helpe me […]

Word Forms

• neighborhoods
• neighbourhood

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When Should You Use Neighborhood?

Use neighborhood when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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